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Auction: 5026 - The Edward Gilbert Collection of Important British Empire
Lot: 1376

xTurks Islands 1889 "One Penny" on 21/2 red-brown, a strip of three with the right-hand stamp bisected diagonally, each neatly cancelled "T1" and tied on 1891 (26 May) envelope to Saxony, Germany, showing superb Turks Islands c.d.s. alongside and with arrival c.d.s. alongside. A rare franking. R.P.S. Certificate (1966). Sc. 55d; S.G. 61b. Photo Estimate £ 2,200-2,500 provenance: M.H. Ludington, 1999

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